Ava wished she could have looked forward to the final leg of their journey with a proper spirit of adventure — after all, she’d never thought she’d have an opportunity to go four-wheeling in the Salvadoran rainforest — but the hard bed in their sleeper car had given her a crick in the neck, and she felt sticky and not quite herself after not being able to take her usual morning shower.
Some world adventurer you are, she scolded herself. Don’t you have bigger things to worry about besides not getting a shower?
Probably. She had a feeling that she was focusing on her physical discomforts because that seemed a lot safer than thinking about what waited for them in Pico n***o. The Jeep they’d rented in Guatemala City had great air conditioning, thank God…but the Jeep would only get them so fa
